Paul Mommertz

Paul Mommertz (born February 5, 1930 in Aachen ) is a German writer . He became known as the author of scripts, stage plays, radio plays, through articles in newspapers, magazines, at conferences and through ghostwriting .

Life

Paul Mommertz is the son of a master confectioner . His father died in a bomb attack on Aachen during World War II . Mommertz studied German, history and art history in Bonn , Würzburg and Vienna . He wrote a dissertation on the role of aphorism in literature and philosophy .

Mommertz is a journalist and was among other things editor of the satirical magazine Simplicissimus, which appeared again in the 1960s, as well as contract author for Bavaria-Film and has lived as a freelance writer in Munich since then . He is married and has a son and a daughter.

Catalog of works (selection)

1963: Aktion T4 , drama, world premiere at the Münchner Kammerspiele , director and TV version: Max Peter Ammann
1965: Walther Rathenau - Anatomy of an assassination , television play of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk , director: Franz Peter Wirth
1967: The Assassination - Death in Exile (LD Trotsky ) , documentary television game in two parts, Westdeutscher Rundfunk , director: August Everding

1970: Der Pedell (about Jakob Schmid , who denounced the Scholl siblings), TV play by ZDF , director: Eberhard Itzenplitz

1974: Kriminalobermeisterin ER , TV play by ZDF, director: Peter Schulze-Rohr

1976: Elektra , radio play by Südwestfunk , director: Heinz Krogmann

1978: Reinhard Heydrich - Manager of Terror , TV play by ZDF, director: Heinz Schirk

1980: The Defector - The Vlasov case , TV play by ZDF, director: Hans Quest

1982: Escape helpers wanted , television play by ZDF, director: Gerd Oelschlegel

1984: The Wannsee Conference , television play by Bayerischer Rundfunk , director: Heinz Schirk, worldwide cinema use: Premiere in Los Angeles , as an award-winning foreign production at festivals in Caracas , Toronto and Rio de Janeiro

1988: The Wannsee Conference , stage version, premiere in the Volkstheater Vienna , director: Paul Blaha , tours with the new theater Halle , director: Peter Sodann

1988: Judgment Day , radio play about Marie and Knut Hamsun on Bayerischer Rundfunk, director: Heinz Wendt

1989: Hamsun - Hitler , stage version, world premiere at Theater Baden-Baden , director: Frieder Lorenz

1989: Götterdämmerung in Nuremberg , two-part radio play by Westdeutscher Rundfunk, director: Hans Werner Schwarz

1991: The Lafarge case , ZDF crime film, director: Erwin Keusch

1995: Nadja, Homecoming to the Foreign , TV film by ZDF, director: Torsten Näter

1990: Gott undsoweiter - heartbeat lines , aphorisms, published by Grünewald-Verlag

Manuscripts

Senta and Sam , German-Israeli love story, screenplay
The Hamsun scandal , scripts for one-part and multi-part films about Hamsun and Hitler
Fritz Moscow , screenplays for cinema and TV about Friedrich Joseph Haass (1780-1853)

Lena, Lena! - TV movie crime drama
Two brides too many - tabloid comedy
Urbi et Orbi - short radio play

Volumes of aphorisms

Subject

Based on the experiences of young people during the time of National Socialism and the shock of the complete exposure of the Nazi crimes, the dramatic texts focus on problems of adaptation and resistance. The volume of aphorisms, “ Sichtwechsel” , deals with private, social and political life. From his lifelong engagement with religion and the (especially Catholic) Church, the aphorisms under the title Sinnthesen resulted .

Prices

Dramatist Prize of the Munich Kammerspiele
Tukan Prize of the City of Munich
DAG television award
Silver nymph in Monte Carlo
First prize in the documentary play category for The Wannsee Conference at the 1985 World Television Festival Tokyo.

Web links

Literature by and about Paul Mommertz in the catalog of the German National Library
Homepage of Paul Mommertz
Aphorisms by Paul Mommertz

personal data
SURNAME	Mommertz, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	5th February 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aachen